I have two ideas for different sections on 3till7:
- Don’t Deal with These Companies – Based on reading about Mar’s recent trouble with Best Buy as well as my own past problems with Dairy Queen, UPS, and Chase Bank, not to mention my dad’s problems with Fedex and UPS plus Trin’s problems with AAA, I would like to start a section of articles detailing people’s problems with various companies. It wouldn’t be so bad if these companies actually gave a darn, but they’re big enough that it feels like even if you wrote them a letter complaining about the shoddy service you received, the most you’d get would be a $5 coupon for the next time you used them, or something equally worthless.
- Pants Awards – The inspiration for this comes straight from Jem, though with her awards, they’re given to absolutely crappy personal sites. I’ve always been confused, and have told her as much, as to why she gives pretty underwear images to ugly sites; she should be giving away photos of skid-marked tighty whities! I would find really exceptional sites, write a review of what makes them so great, and then the award would be either an image of pretty underwear (or “pants”, in Brit-speak) or the American version of “pants,” as in a photo of some khakis. I talked to Jem earlier and she gave her blessing to the idea, so now I just need to find a really nice site to pantsify. If you have any suggestions, let me know. I would like to do someplace new–not new in the sense that it was just registered, though that’s fine, but new in the sense that I don’t see everyone linking to it. No Jemjabella, no BubblesSOC, no Dubious, no Bottled Sky, etc.
On a side note, I hate doing permutations and combinations. I had my fill of that crap last semester in discrete math, and now I’m getting it all over again in statistics. I’ve forgotten how to find the probability of selecting 2 left-handed players when you have to select 5 players from 10 in a particular order, etc.
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Haha you linked me and I got all excited because of it and my whole journalism class looked at me funny.
I think the company section would be not only informative but highly amusing and I think it’s a wonderful idea… :D
I just added it: Don’t Deal with These Companies. :)
I read about the idea at Snark, it seems very interesting! It would be refreshing to see recognition to good websites instead of just loling at bad ones :P
Even though it seems like certain companies don’t care (and some don’t), there are people in many corporations that genuinely are concerned with the input from current/former customers. These people may not do a lot of remedy the situation (i.e. $5 coupon), but consumer feedback is always helpful for any company who is in business for the long-term.
When I can speak about business-y things like this, does this mean that my college education is actually affecting me? Just wondering because I was starting to have my doubts. :P
Karl added a similar section to his website a while ago – “IT Products to avoid”. I doubt the single entry has caused a great deal of bother to the company but I know he gets a lot of hits from the page, so it’s probably put some people off buying from them. Always a bonus, heh.
Look forward to reading the “Anti-Pants Awards”.. or whatever you end up calling them. ;)
From the page? I meant to the page.. :S